Widely regarded as the defining bluegrass fiddler of his generation, Michael Cleveland is a Grammy winner, twelve-time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year, National Fiddler Hall of Fame inductee, and recipient of the NEA’s National Heritage Fellowship, our nation’s highest honor in folk and traditional arts. He brings his powerhouse band Flamekeeper to Cooperstown for a night of blazing, deeply rooted bluegrass.

The Grammy-winning Ying Quartet celebrates America's 250th anniversary with a program spanning just over 250 years of chamber music: Haydn's revolutionary String Quartet Op. 20 No. 3, David Ludwig's poetic Canzoniere for flute and strings featuring CSMF Artistic Director Linda Chesis, and Dvořák's beloved "American" Quartet written during the composer's transformative Iowa summer of 1893 and central to the Ying's groundbreaking Iowa residency that shaped their visionary approach to chamber music.